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While it may be mostly Pagans and Wiccans who celebrate the Yule holiday, nearly all cultures and faiths have some sort of winter solstice celebration or festival. Because of the theme of endless birth, life, death, and rebirth, the time of the solstice is often associated with deity and other legendary figures. No matter which path you follow, chances are good that one of your gods or goddesses has a winter solstice connection.

She fulfils the Return Of The Light that Joline speaks of, and which I can wholly relate to.
Thankyou for that refreshing commentary about the winter solstice, and your beautiful image, which speaks volumes to me, whereas a robin, father christmas or sparkly bauble does not.
Although I personally don't "do" the traditional Christmas, it will always be celebrated in one way or another because it is mid-winter and the turning of the year.

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In these cold dull winter days, we hunger for the light of spring, a new beginning for one and all, you and I searching for warmth and comfort to be denied! by winters icy hands out stretched towards us. Will we ever get warm again! the cold eating in to our very bones, will we be kissed again by the heart warming rays of the sun. We are not in charge of our destiny! so be it! but hope springs eternal until the day we die?. L.j.arditti 2012. regards Leon.

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